ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,517, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for configuring multicast QoS parameter" was invented by Meng Li (Beijing), Jiangwei Ying (Beijing) and Yanmei Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides a communication method and apparatus. In the method, a multicast session management function network element receives a PCC rule corresponding to a first multicast group from a policy control function network element; obtains, based on the PCC rule, a target multicast QoS param...